Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Quote

Nothing is more erroneous in their case than to neglect the acquisition of abstract scientific truths because they appear remote from practice.


Records of the School of Mines and of Science Applied to the Arts, (Volume 1), Part I, The Study of Abstract Science (p. 27)


Nothing is more erroneous in their case than to neglect the acquisition of abstract scientific truths because they appear remote from practice.

Nothing is more erroneous in their case than to neglect the acquisition of abstract scientific truths because they appear remote from practice.

Nothing is more erroneous in their case than to neglect the acquisition of abstract scientific truths because they appear remote from practice.

Nothing is more erroneous in their case than to neglect the acquisition of abstract scientific truths because they appear remote from practice.